Practice facilitation and academic detailing improves colorectal cancer screening rates in safety net primary care clinics

Abstract

Objective SUNY Upstate Medical University entered a contract with Health Research, Inc. and the New York State Department of Health to implement an intervention using academic detailing and practice facilitation to increase colorectal cancer screening rates within primary care practices, and to assess the outcomes and barriers to intervention success. The project was conducted within a large multiorganizational framework, led by the Studying-ActingLearning-Teaching Network (SALT-Net, SUNY Upstate Medical University) in partnership with the Upstate New York Network (UNYNET -University at Buffalo) and the Greater Rochester PBRN (GR-PBRN -University of Rochester Medical Center), under the auspices of the Upstate New York Translational Research Network (UNYTE).